Isabel Hardman

Isabel Hardman is assistant editor of The Spectator and edits the Coffee House blog. She also presents Radio 4’s Week in Westminster.

Why can’t NHS managers spot a serial killer?

26 August 2023 9:00 am

No one who has paid any attention to NHS scandals over the past few decades should be at all surprised…

How was Lucy Letby able to operate in an NHS hospital?

19 August 2023 2:45 am

How was Lucy Letby able to operate as a serial killer in an NHS hospital? Now that the verdicts in…

How the Tories plan to take the fight to Labour on the NHS

14 August 2023 1:58 am

Brace yourselves for health week. After the rip-roaring success of the government’s ‘stop the boats’ week, you might forgive the…

Ulez isn’t the election gift Sunak wishes it was

21 July 2023 10:37 pm

Given everyone has won a prize in this round of by-elections, the three main party leaders have been feasting on…

Illegal Migration Bill passed by Lords

18 July 2023 7:09 pm

The Illegal Migration Bill is making its final crossing today to become an Act, after peers and MPs voted into…

Tories fight over Illegal Migration Bill

11 July 2023 11:36 pm

The Illegal Migration Bill is back this afternoon for ‘ping pong’ – the final stage of its legislative passage where…

Boris’s allies defend their attacks on the Privileges Committee

11 July 2023 4:44 pm

The House of Commons often rises early these days, with little in the way of legislation to keep MPs busy.…

Starmer commits to oracy classes for children

6 July 2023 9:03 pm

Keir Starmer is giving another speech on one of his five missions (remember them?) today. The Labour leader has a…

Chris Pincher’s suspension spells more trouble for Rishi Sunak

6 July 2023 7:30 pm

Chris Pincher should be suspended as an MP for eight weeks following allegations he groped two people at the Carlton…

Is the glucose monitoring craze really so healthy?

1 July 2023 9:00 am

The curious obsession with glucose monitoring gadgets

The privileges committee was right to scold Boris’s supporters

29 June 2023 10:40 pm

Did the privileges committee really need to bother with a report scolding a number of Boris Johnson’s supporters for what…

What’s the true cost of the Rwanda deportation plan?

27 June 2023 6:05 am

What’s the point of the government’s flagship Rwanda deportation scheme if it isn’t going to save money for the taxpayer?…

Is Labour bluffing on Lords reform?

22 June 2023 9:22 pm

Is Labour really going to reform the House of Lords? The party has ended up in a bit of a…

Neither party is fully trusted on the economy

21 June 2023 12:31 am

Jeremy Hunt was bombarded by MPs worried about the ‘mortgage timebomb’ when he took Treasury questions in the Commons today.…

Parliament votes to ban Boris

20 June 2023 7:47 am

MPs have just voted 354 to 7 in favour of the Privileges Committee report’s finding that Boris Johnson deliberately misled…

The Tories can’t escape partygate

20 June 2023 3:28 am

Is partygate all in the past? That’s what Rishi Sunak is hoping. He sent Penny Mordaunt to the Commons this…

The partygate report is damning for Boris Johnson

15 June 2023 7:10 pm

The Privileges Committee has published its report on whether Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament over partygate. It is damning. The…

Boris Johnson quits parliament

10 June 2023 6:15 am

Boris Johnson has announced he will be standing down from parliament with immediate effect, after the Privileges Committee recommended a…

Sunak and Biden’s White House love-in

9 June 2023 7:45 am

Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden’s White House press conference started late, presumably to make a point that the two had…

Will Britons be injecting their way out of obesity?

8 June 2023 10:51 pm

Is it right that the government is going to let more people use weight-loss jabs on the NHS? Anti-obesity jabs,…

Labour’s AI attack strategy comes unstuck

7 June 2023 1:50 am

What’s wrong with the government’s AI strategy? Labour has been claiming today that it is ‘already out of date’, with…

The mystery of Boris Johnson’s missing WhatsApp messages

31 May 2023 6:30 pm

Where have Boris Johnson’s diaries and WhatsApp messages gone? The row over the demands of the Covid Inquiry for evidence…

What Suella Braverman needs to do to keep her job

23 May 2023 2:40 am

As luck would have it, the Home Secretary was down to answer departmental questions in the chamber this afternoon, and…

The myth of the beautiful green belt

18 May 2023 4:25 am

What a nonsense debate the fight over the green belt has become. Today Keir Starmer has been – rightly –…

Suella Braverman is making Rishi Sunak look weak

17 May 2023 10:32 pm

The National Conservatism conference is entering its third day in London, and has managed to grab more headlines than the…